A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

You can help meet President Clinton's America Reads Challenge, a national, grassroots literacy effort to help all children read well and independently by the end of third grade.

Everyone has something important to contribute to the America Reads Challenge. You can change the life of a child by reading daily to your own child, by serving as a tutor in your community to another child, or by joining together with other members of your community to start or expand a local literacy program.

In this booklet, you will find suggestions for simple things you can do to help meet the America Reads Challenge. You can help as a parent, school, librarian, concerned citizen, community organization, university, employer, or as a member of the media.

We hope you will join the millions of people in the United States who are already helping to meet this Challenge by working with children in reading and other language skills. Whether you help as an individual, or join with others, every contribution toward this effort makes a difference in the future of our children.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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